A hot Dry day... Such a horrible thing for a plant and Night was no exception. She thrived like every other plant would where it was nice & humid or where there was a good supply of clean water & she hadn't sound a single empty pond lake or stream today. She couldn't just wander up to a dozen student's let out her roots & drink. one of course, two sure three maybe four slim chance but anything more was too much for the poor plant.

She wandered to the campus which was frowded with girls yet she fit in a quite well in looked. Finally she saw something strange full of plants on the outskirts of the campus, a building made of glass with water dripping off the walls inside. She rushed too it panting quite tired of the dry air. she openned the door easily and slipped inside with a deep sigh the edges of her hair that had begun to brown became invigorated with life again as they returned to their vibrant green color.

Moving into the green house she'd find a good place to sit and let her roots out plunging them into various sources of soil around her unseen from the outside to drink.

"Ahhh soo nice I see why all of you enjoy it in here, not a peep or a problem just pleasent chats."
she told the plants who responded kindly to the girl. The scent of the greenhouse would seem to have changed to anyone with a strong enough sense of smell.

I was taking a nap in the back room I had that I used as a makeshift bed for when I don't want to travel back to my tree or for when I was entarining students. When my keen nose picked up the scent change. The aprodisic mixture and hell even the mixture of chemicals that helped mantain my human form while even in my sleep was disrupted.

However due to Anomin's nature she wouldn't be affected by that illusion in the least. Finally my senstive nose caused me to wake and to head out to see what the problem was. She looked very much human, but I could see her aura, that of a plant. It made me wonder if she was one of my experiments I thought was a failure back on my home planet.

"Who are you?" I ask the plant as I stand there a few feet away as she has spent a good 30 minutes here already.

It took a few moments for her to realize that the voice she had heard wasn't a plant's. She retracted her roots from the soil around them and looked up at Keemari curiously still enjoying the humid air even if she couldn't enjoy the moist soil safely any longer

"Night Anomina, Botanist of the Chlorian government and who might I ask are you he who interupts my drinking?"

she smiled looking over the male taking a deep soothing breath before brushing her hair with one set of her roots smiling politely to the man whom she didn't have anything against; the smell of plants around him was one of kindness and the various flowers seemed to be calling him kind things.

"My name is Keemari, so my suspicions were correct. Your not a human, you are indeed a plant. And as to who would disrupt your drinking I'm the creator of all of these plants. I'm far beyond a botanist in skill. I'm a druid. Have you heard of them?" I ask her with a smirk.

"Druid?"

She paused tapping a root against the nearest bit of plant free ground.

"I think there are tales of Druids on my home world; sort of like gods of other worlds but, less creation tales more caring tales. There are wonderful tales of Druids coming to our people during great droughts and saving us from extinction & helping us through diseases back before we could handle ourselves and control our planet's weather & cure most ailments with just our own ten roots."

She looked about all the plants smiling deeply.

"You've actually created all these plants? Is that why their speech is so kind towards you?"

I smile at her. "Don't you speak kindly to the ones who natured you and raised you when you were but a seedling?" I ask her as I take a seat next to her. "Yes, we druids hold much power over the things in nature, especially plants. If you do not mind telling me your tales. I would love to hear about how your people come to know my kin." I tell her.

"Yes I suppose I do speak well of both of those whom cultivated & raised me."

she nodded listening to the rest of his words; her roots; or at least a few of them returning to the soil.

"They're very old stories which have no doubt changed thousands of times there is no way to tell how much of it is truth and how much has become myth but, I can tell you."

She took a deep breath of the carbon-dioxide that filled the air; she could breath either form of air and would produce the opposite an adaptation her species had gained long ago.

"Many millenia ago when our Species had barely begun creating societies there was a period of time when no rain fell; for a time our people lived off the lakes & the oceans of Chlora until one day they too dried. We began to grow ill and many just crumbled as they dehydrated. Some began to look across the land moving from meager bit of water to the next until one day when all looked lost a Mighty druid came down from the heavens looking at our people with a kind heart she watched us and our will to survve our unwillingness to surrender. she came to one of our groups and begged for water and was given the last drop they had the kindness we showed the druid earned us a gift and it rained across our entire planet for five months straight the rivers lakes and swamps refilled and life returned to normal a statue erected to honor the fine druid whom save out people where our capitol city' was one day built around."

I close my eyes and smile. "I see, that story is very much like a written history of ours." I tell her.

"Long ago one of the Druids of the Berry Lin discovered the spell to transport between worlds using the life stream. She came across a world who's life stream was dark and dry. She went there finding it to be in such a state of decay that it affected her greatly. She searched for weeks to find the cause and when she did she find herself too weak from exhustion, lack of food and water. When something amazing happened. She found plants that were people, creatures that were truely perfect in our eyes.

They were terrible hurt by the state of there planet, yet they showed there water and food with her. She was truely touched by there kindness and did make it rain for those months on end while teaching them many things about civilazation, how to make and create without disturbing the natural order. Then she left to teach her techniques and when she felt her life near it's end she returned to that planet and wove her druidic energy, her spirit into the planet to keep it from ever coming to that disater again.

She also took the knowledge of where this planet was. So that others would be tempted to see and find the plants of this planet, that were truely beyond anything we had seen or made ourselves."

She then felt me grab her by the arms and turn her lightly. "To me you are a marvel, well worthy to be saved by that Berry Lin Druid and a true beauty to behold." I tell her.

"I see, It is an honor to meet one of the kin of them who saved our kind so long ago."

Her hair tinted a faint red when he called her a marvel & a beauty. Though it had been said a number of times to her by various others of her kind. truth was she probably had no need to become a botanist it was just her passion to help her people.

"We've become a well respected people head of a galactic government since we grew our first intergalactic ships we've taught others in our home galaxy how to respect nature taking only what's needed and replacing all that is taken I thank you and your people for all they've done for us Keemari. Tell me what has become of the druids of berry lin since that day?"

"Hmmm, the druids of the berry lin is acutally a title given to cetrain druids, not a class of them. The Berry Lin is the laugauge of my home world and it is in the very old toungue with three meanings. Six Element Master, Holy Master, and or God Druid. The meaning is clear though. On my home world druids were given the title of Berry Lin when they could master all six elments like the girl your people meet.

You see most druids are only sufficient in one of two elements. For a long time on my home world the people with the talent to became Berry Lin Disapeared until I showed up after a 1000 years to reclaim the title to show it was do able and not a myth. But our people always prospered even those not of the druid cult when there was enough of the Berry Lin to help our world." I tell her.

"Oh, I see so I misunderstood. Forgive me for that though I must ask then are the druids well in recent times? Are yo one of these god druids?"

Her roots again extended into new groups of soil as to not take too much from the immobile plants she was sharing with she wasn't greedy no but, she did need a good drink still and absorbing from the soil was much more difficult that just taking it straight from a water source or even just drinking it which for her kind was an insufferably slow process but, the only wyay they could get water from sources that had too many other things blended in as well as obtaining nutrients her kind needed.

"Do hope I didn't interupt you from anything by intruding into your home."

"I was merely taking a nap, and well I am one of these god Druids and sadly I'm the only one left from my home world. Any other druids from others worlds... I have yet to see any." I tell her.

"Oh I see..."

her red tinted hair shifted to a vague purple; it seemed her hair was a good indicator of her mood, right now embarrassed yet sadened by the news he gave her.

"I didn't know."

She looked to the soil a plant began to sprout and grow a flower budding on the top; a silver edged gold & blue flower whose petals looked like velvet.

"Please take her as a gift of condolence for the loss of your kind. She is my pet in a way, do make sure not to forget to feed her now and then..."

"Do not be saddened, they died for a very noble cause, in a way there deaths prevented an evil from rooting the very life force of our universe until it was nothing but blackness." I tell her.

I then look at her. "Hmmm, is that the only way you can feed?" I ask her.

Gently night shook her head retracting her roots back into her fingers shaking her hands out and flexing her fingers before standing.

"It's just one of the many ways. We can absorb through our skin in the worst cases, through out roots; through ingestion like most creatures & through a sort of photosynthesis like our ansestral buds though ours has evolved quite a bit since them. Our bodies can process Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide for the process and our species makes yearly sabatacles to this world to enhance our healths with the students here."